Bitstream Inc.
| Bitstream Inc.
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| legal form | Incorporated |
| ISIN | US0917361083 |
| founding | 1981 |
| resolution | 2012 |
| Seat |
Cambridge , Massachusetts ,
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| management | Anna M. Chagnon (President and CEO) |
Bitstream Inc. is an American software company whose main fields of activity are the development of fonts , font technology and related topics. The company is one of the most important type foundries .
Bitstream was founded in 1981 by Matthew Carter , Mike Parker and others and is based in Cambridge , Massachusetts . The company is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol BITS.
The successful reverse engineering of the specifications of Type 1 of PostScript -Schriftartenformates by the company contributed to the publication of the official specifications of the format by its manufacturer Adobe Inc. at.
Bitstream offers over 1,000 fonts, some of which can also be found in the font collections of products from Corel, for example .
Well-known fonts from Bitstream are u. a. Zapf Humanist 601 (Bitstream's version of the Optima ) and the free Bitstream Vera . The Helvetica is offered by Bitstream under the name Swiss721BT . The Bitstream fonts are sold online through the subsidiary MyFonts, among others.
Bitstream has been part of Monotype Imaging since 2012 .
Web links
- Former website of Bitstream Inc. (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Laurens Leurs: The history of fonts . Prepressure: The site for prepress & print devotees. In English language . Retrieved May 31, 2013.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
